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Places TCRF has shown up outside of TCRF.
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2010
September
- Rockman Corner — Credits, Multiplayer And More Unearthed In Mega Man Soccer
- GoNintendo — Random Time! - Jennifer Hale's unused intro for Metroid Prime
- Also posted on JuegosADN
- Capcom-Unity — Mega Man Soccer Secrets Revealed
- Also posted on The Mega Man Network
October
- The Mega Man Network — Hidden Level Editor Discovered in Mega Man X/X3
December
- The Legend of Zelda prototype release
- 4Players.de — Allgemein: Zelda-Prototyp (1986) aufgetaucht
- Blistered Thumbs — The Legend of Zelda (NES) Prototype Released
- Engadget — The Legend of Zelda prototype surfaces, makes itself readily available
- FZ.se — Prova prototyp till The Legend of Zelda
- Geek.com — Nintendo prototype build of The Legend of Zelda (NES) discovered
- Joystiq — Alleged Legend of Zelda prototype released
- Kotaku — A Rare Look At What The Legend of Zelda Used To Be
- Tiny Cartridge — Legend of Zelda prototype found
- VGChartz — Rare, Unreleased Original Legend of Zelda Prototype Unearthed
- Vida Extra — Descubre el prototipo original de 'The Legend of Zelda'
- Zelda Informer — The Legend of Zelda Prototype Surfaces
2011
April
- Cracked article — 8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True)
- Dorkly Link — Linked by a site run by College Humor
May
- Mental Floss — Secrets of The Legend of Zelda Prototype
July
- Kotaku and gamer.nl report on the vulgar unused audio clips of Atomic Bomberman.
December
- Dome.fi article — discusses unused content in System Shock, using TCRF as their source
2012
January
- NintendoWorldReport — Metroid Prime 3 Prototype Leaked
February
- A lot of articles concerning the hidden message in the 2012 re-boot of Syndicate are created. Among the sites posting about it are...
March
- Cracked article — The 5 Ballsiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games
August
- Mental Floss — 11 Toys Worth More Than My Car (links to The Legend of Zelda prototype page)
- GamesIndustry.biz — Roundtable: The DLC "Problem" (random general TCRF link)
- GameTrailers uploads an updated version of a Pop Fiction episode of Yoshi's Story's cut purple and brown Yoshis. They don't show the site, but make explicit mention of the website and show some of the game's material.
September
- Cracked article — The 6 Worst Ideas Nearly Included in Great Video Games
2013
January
- Message in a Binary Bottle blog post, featuring Donkey Kong, Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken, and more.
- The article also gets featured on BoingBoing.
March
- Joystiq article — Reports on how F-Zero AX is present in the F-Zero GX data
- Nintendo Life article - F-Zero AX Found Hidden In GameCube F-Zero GX
May
- Wired Game|Life article — The Funny, Occasionally Dirty, Hidden Messages in Your Favorite Games.
- This was later reposted on Yahoo! Games, but with only the first five games mentioned. This article was also (briefly?) featured on the Yahoo! homepage.
June
- Cracked article — 5 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Messing With Pirates
August
- GamesRadar — The 10 strangest moments of product placement in gaming history (links to Pikmin 2 regional differences)
October
- Cracked article — The 6 Creepiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games (Part 2)
November
- Tiscali.cz article — Ztraceno v procesu: C&C Generals jako strategie mezi starým a novým světem (Translated: "Lost in the Process: C & C Generals as a Strategy between the Old World and the New World") discusses the cut content from Command and Conquer: Generals
- Article in Edge Magazine, Christmas 2013 (#261). (article scans)
2014
January
- Outside Xbox article — Discover The Deleted Scenes From Your Favourite Games
February
- BoingBoing links to the developer messages category on 13 February.
March
- Cracked article — 5 Insane Video Game Easter Eggs You Weren't Supposed to Find
- The article is then partially translated into French by Hitek.
- Gameblog article — Anecdote jeu vidéo : Shadow of the Colossus du point de vue... d'un colosse
May
June
- Buzzfeed article — 37 Facts You Definitely Didn’t Know About "Mario Kart"
August
- Kotaku article — The Super Mario 64 Coin That Took 18 Years To Collect
- Gizmodo en Español — La moneda de Super Mario 64 que nadie pudo alcanzar en 18 años
- Kotaku article — Wait, The GameCube's Pikmin Could Run In Windows?
- Also reported in 3D Juegos, Hardcore Gamer, and Nintendo Life.
- Net Lab article — 「スーパーマリオ64」誰も取れなかった“幻のコイン” 発売18年目にしてついにゲットされる (Translated: Everyone can finally get the removed "phantom coin" in the 18-year-old "Super Mario 64")
- The same story is also told on Kotaku.
October
- Student newspaper Interrobang has a brief article discussing The Cutting Room Floor on Page 8 in the 20 October, 2014 issue.
- Slashdot news — New Music Discovered In Donkey Kong For Arcade
- Also featured on Nintendo Everything, Kotaku, and Nintendo Life.
- Gamezilla.pl — Po ponad 33 latach w plikach gry Donkey Kong wciąż można znaleźć coś nowego (Translated: "After more than 33 years, something new can still be found in the old game Donkey Kong's files")
- Kotaku Article — The Pokémon Battle That Shouldn't Have Been Cut From Red And Blue
2015
January
- Cracked article — 7 Awesome Things Lurking In the Code of Famous Video Games
- Cracked article — 6 Video Game Easter Eggs Developers Didn't Want You to Find
March
- Mental Floss — The Ideas Cut From Sonic The Hedgehog
April
- Smash 4 3DS Ryu sound files:
- Reddit — A post about our tweet confirming them
- GoNintendo — "More evidence of Ryu joining" ("more"??)
- Destructoid — "Could Street Fighter's Ryu be coming"
May
- GoNintendo — Unused code in Smash Bros. Wii U points to abandoned YouTube upload feature (via a Neogaf thread)
- Also featured on NintendoEverything
- EventHubs on unused SF2 content and dealing with some hidden content in some CPS2 hardware Capcom fighting games
- Mental Floss — 10 Things You Might Not Know About The N64’s GoldenEye 007
- I Am Error by Nathan Altice
July
- GlitterBerri.com — Ico Unused Dialogue & Script Retranslation; many other sites picked this up, such as the following:
- Eurogamer Ico's original script has been translated
- Siliconera The Deleted Scenes Of Ico
- Gamespilot Fans entdecken geheime Dialogzeilen in PS2-Klassiker
- Jogazera Diálogos excluídos de Ico ressurgem e oferecem um novo olhar sobre o jogo
- Kanobu Перевод японской версии Ico бросает новый свет на финал игры
- Levelup Traducen guión original no editado de Ico
- 8bits Encuentran dialogo escondido de ICO que explica su historia
August
- Ars Technica — 30 years, 30 memorable facts about Super Mario Bros.
September
- USgamer — Now You Can Finally Play the Worst Famicom Game in English
- GIGAZINE — 「スーパーマリオブラザーズ」の知られざる事実30個
October
- Digital Trends — Super Mario Maker fans recreate lost GBA e-Reader levels (links to Super Mario Advance 4 page)
- The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes DLC text discovery:
- Nintendo Inquirer — Unused Text Discovered In Tri Force Heroes Points to DLC
- Zelda Europe — Tri Force Heroes: DLC geplant?
- Nintendo Everything — Unused Text and Placeholders Indicate DLC Is Planned For Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
- Nintendo Life — Rumour: Data Miners Reveal That The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes Will Be Receiving DLC
- Nintendo Insider — Rumour: Nintendo Planning Paid DLC for Zelda: Tri Force Heroes
- Gaming Reinvented — The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes May Be Getting DLC
December
- Vocativ — 8-Bit Forever: The Internet’s Obsession With Vintage Video Games (random general TCRF link)
2016
January
- Reddit — A post on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 's anti-piracy method.
- gameplay.pl — Sekrety gry Planescape: Torment
February
- Many news sites pick up on the Mortal Kombat EJB menu after a YouTube video is made:
- Ars Technica — Decades later, players are still unlocking secrets in classic Mortal Kombat
- Atlas Obscura — Found: A Mortal Kombat Secret That Was Hidden for Over 20 Years
- Eurogamer — Over 20 years later, Mortal Kombat's secret Ed Boon menus uncovered
- Gameranx — Mortal Kombat Still Revealing Secrets After 20 Years
- GameSpot — Mortal Kombat's Secret Menus Discovered 20 Years Later
- GameStar — Mortal Kombat - titkos menüket találtak az első három részben
- GameZone — 20 years later, secret Mortal Kombat menus have been discovered
- Geektimes — Секретные меню Mortal Kombat открыты спустя десятилетия после выхода игры
- GIGAZINE — 20年以上未発見だった格闘ゲーム「モータルコンバット」の裏技をついに実践した猛者が登場
- Hardware Upgrade — Scoperti i contenuti segreti rimasti nascosti nel cabinato di Mortal Kombat per decenni
- Hitek — Mortal Kombat: il découvre un menu secret 20 ans après
- HVG — 24 éven át titokban tartott menüt találtak a Mortal Kombatban
- IGN — Mortal Kombat Secrets Revealed Over 20 Years Later
- Kotaku UK — Mortal Kombat Has Kept a Secret For 24 Years
- news247 — Mortal Kombat: Βρέθηκαν μυστικά menu 20 χρόνια μετά. Πώς θα τα ξεκλειδώσεις
- Later posted on SPORT 24.
- Maxim — Watch: 'Mortal Kombat' Secret Menus Discovered After Decades
- MeioBit — Descoberto menu secreto nos primeiros Mortal Kombats
- Mental Floss — Secret ‘Mortal Kombat’ Menus Finally Unlocked After More Than 20 Years
- NanoNews — Mortal Kombat secret arcade menus surface after more than 20 years
- Siliconera — Secret Menu Found In Arcade Versions Of Mortal Kombat I, II, III
- Superinteressante — Conheça os segredos escondidos em Mortal Kombat por mais de 20 anos
- UPROXX — Secret ‘Mortal Kombat’ Menus That Lay Undiscovered For Nearly 25 Years Have Been Found
- The Verge — See Mortal Kombat secrets that were hidden for decades
- Vida Extra — 23 años después, se descubre el menú secreto de Ed Boon en los tres primeros Mortal Kombat
- Critical Hits — 5 curiosidades sobre Silent Hill
March
- Kotaku UK writes an article about us and Unseen64
April
- Gadgets 360 — 13 Easter Eggs That Took Way Too Long to Find (links to Mortal Kombat EJB menu)
- NintendoEverything writes a brief article about the Lakitu glitch in Super Mario Bros..
- Also covered on NintendoWorldReport
June
- Tedium posts an article about TCRF, along with an interview of sorts from Xkeeper
- The same article is reposted and edited for Motherboard five days later.
- SyFyWire — 12 deleted video game characters (that still appear in the code of classic games)
September
- Ars Technica UK — 30 years, 30 memorable facts about Super Mario Bros. (number 14)
October
- Kotaku — How Mega Man Survived Its Creator Leaving Capcom (mentions Mega Man 3 findings)
- Screen Rant — 15 Secrets Hidden In The Legend Of Zelda
December
- Fire Emblem fansite Serenes Forest reports on the mobile Fire Emblem assets found in Miitomo by Ehm. These sites also wrote about the findings:
- Nintendo Everything — Miitomo data mining may show images from Fire Emblem mobile game
- IGN — Miitomo Seems to Contain Hints to Fire Emblem Mobile and Miitopia
- Nintendo Life — Rumour: Images Related to the Upcoming Fire Emblem Mobile Game Have Been Found in Miitomo
- iDigitalTimes — ‘Fire Emblem’ Mobile Game Hints Found In Miitomo App
- Siliconera — Images From The Fire Emblem Mobile Game May Have Been Found While Data Mining Miitomo
- TouchArcade — Nintendo's 'Miitomo' Might Get 'Fire Emblem' Content Soon
- GameCast Blog — 任天堂、マリオの次は『ファイアーエムブレム』リリースか。『Miitomo』にファイアーエムブレムのテーマ画像見つかる
- Nintendo Wire — Fire Emblem, Zelda images found in Miitomo data mine
- Gamnesia — Data Miners Have Discovered Images of Fire Emblem and Zelda in Miitomo
- Cracked article — 7 Video Games People Are Playing In Awesomely Creative Ways
- Screen Rant — 15 Things You Never Knew About Super Smash Bros. (video autoplay warning)
- Screen Rant — Metroid: 15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Games And Samus Aran (video autoplay warning)
- TweakTown — Take a look at Fallout 4's scrapped content
2017
January
- Screen Rant — Pokémon: 15 Things You Never Knew About Ruby And Sapphire (video autoplay warning)
- Gaming Reinvented and Nintendo Wire write about an inaccessible Corrin amiibo costume in Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World. (Nintendo Wire doesn't link to TCRF.)
- Also covered by Perfectly Nintendo and Nintendo Everything, though Nintendo Everything doesn't link to TCRF.
February
- Screen Rant — 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Tetris
- Screen Rant — 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (video autoplay warning)
April
June
- Rockman Corner — Footage of Mega Man 4's Lost Mid-Boss Unearthed
September
October
- Eurogamer — How one Mega Drive dev cheekily slipped through Sega's certification process
- Heavy — Top 10 Creepiest Bits of Unused Content in Games
December
- Bloody Disgusting — Check Out This Unused ‘Bloodborne’ Content!
2018
February
- Easy Allies — Game Sleuth: Bulma Hidden in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3? (YouTube)
March
May-June
- Boing Boing — Secrets from games that you can't find by playing them
- Nintendo Life — See The Origins Of The Pokémon You Know (And Some You Don't) In A New Manga
- Regarding the Pokémon Gold and Silver prototype:
- Destructoid — These newly-discovered unused Pokemon give me life
- Digital Trends — Several unreleased Pokémon found in ‘Gold’ and ‘Silver’ demos
- Eurogamer — 20 years later, fans uncover never-before-seen Pokémon left on the cutting room floor
- Game Informer — Pokemon Gold And Silver Demo Reveals Unreleased Pokémon
- Game Informer — A Brief History Of Unused Pokémon Designs
- IGN — Unreleased 2nd Generation Pokemon Found in Early Copies of Gold and Silver
- Inverse — Leaked Pokémon Demo Reveals We Almost Got an Evolved Form of Ditto
- Kotaku — Old Pokémon Gold And Silver Demo Shows Features That Never Made It
- Nintendo Life — Never-Before-Seen Pokémon Designs Show How Gold And Silver Could Have Been Very Different
- Polygon — The best parts of the Pokémon Gold demo leaks are the early Pokémon designs
- Syfy Wire — The secret beta Pokémon of Gold and Silver
July
- Silent Hill 2 hidden button combinations:
- Bloody Disgusting — Two ‘Silent Hill 2’ Secrets Discovered After 17 Years!
- Eurogamer — Silent Hill 2 is still surprising us with hidden features
- PlayStation LifeStyle — Silent Hill 2 Players Figure Out Requirements to Activate Hidden Mini Map and ‘Save Anywhere’
- VideoGamer — Silent Hill 2 players have uncovered a hidden mini-map feature 17 years after release
November
- TheGamer — 20 Amazing Things Deleted From The Elder Scrolls Franchise (That Would Have Changed Everything)
December
- Stop Skeletons From Fighting — Secrets of the N64 Transfer Pak (YouTube)
2019
September
December
2020
2021
January-February
- DuckTales prototype released:
- Nintendo Life — DuckTales NES Prototype Unearthed, Features An Unused Song
